And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
My arthritic pinkies are already starting to ache just thinking about ||||=. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
You can't have filenames longer than 14 chars. You can't even think about them! — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last? — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The young think they are immortal, and are determined to prove otherwise. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Many computer scientists have fallen into the trap of trying to define languages like George Orwell's Newspeak, in which it is impossible… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
But I know what's important to me, and what isn't. And I think I know what people can get used to, and… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
So many computer languages try to force you into one way of thinking and Perl is very much the opposite of that… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Not that I have anything much against redundancy. But I said that already. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should compile your Perl with long doubles one of these megaseconds. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing? — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I won't mention any names, because I don't want to get sun4's into trouble. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
And besides, if Perl really takes off in the Windows space, I think the rest of us would just as soon have a double-agent… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'. — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
While I have historically been a late worker, you know, sometimes I even like to get up early and see what's happened in the… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
